EUGH! I keep starting to get motivation back but school is a total turd and it keeps stealing my energy and time from me : NEVERTHELESS, I SHALL NOT GIVE UP. I SHALL NEVER GIVE UPPPPP! But anyhow, I'm just writing this as a small humorous thing to try and start easing back into writing more for public viewing XD

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DISCLAIMER~!: I do not own One Piece, even though I wish I was that friggin' awesome, but I'm not. I cannot come up with rubber super powers or special compasses attracted to islands with their own magnetic pull. My brain does not do that thing.

Sweat slowly rolled down her forehead as she glared at him. Who would relent first? Would it be her? Or that cashier?

Her eyes narrowed to slits as they traveled from the three objects in her hand to the cashier again. It seemed he would not relent. She did not have the money to buy all three, definitely not, but she did not want to leave even one behind. With an internal sigh, the girl made a decision it would be worth acting like a pitiful fool to get these. She was most certainly a devoted fan, at least. No one could deny that.

The slits turned into black holes that sucked out hearts as the girl used her infamous puppy dog eyes. "Please, please, please mister? I need them!"

"I need a roof over my head. No."

Her face dropped in false sadness – though it was partially actual sadness – and she put them down, looking at them as though they were poison suddenly. "Well, it's for the best. My late mother always told me I should stop obsessing over them…"

"Bullcrap, ma'am, I saw your mother with you in the shop across the hall," the man said, nearly black eyes burning holes into her skull.

"Tch," the girl said, looking back down at the tiny plushie monster trio. "Fine, you win." She picked up the middle plush doll after a few moments of thinking. Zoro was definitely her favorite, even though she'd really like to take the other two with her as well. She pulled out a ten dollar bill and a few quarters with a grumble. "Why are these things so friggin' expensive… I wish I could have someone like Nami around for times like this…"

The cashier glared at the woman as he took her money and she walked out of the small shop. What a weird girl.

"I had to resort to the puppy dog face, Livvy! The puppy dog face!" the girl said, sighing as she dropped unceremoniously onto her mint green covers. "And he still didn't relent!"

"Really?!" Olivia said, "Rae Coleman, you are coming with me and we're going back to that mall right now."

"What are you talking about-! You can't just go beat the man up, Liv! Do you want to make us unable to ever enter the store again?!" Rae said, pulling the other girl back down onto her bed and pouting. "I won't deny that I'd like to kick some butt, too, but you know how it is. Police and all that crap."

Livvy laughed. "You say that way too nonchalantly. Shouldn't you be more afraid of the cops?"

"Psh! I'm not the one who suggested beating up some lame-o cashier!" Rae said, "Anyways…" She pulled out the plush doll she'd bought and held it out to let her friend see. "Wasn't able to bargain for the others, but at least I was able to get tiny-Zoro."

The blonde gaped at it. "Wow! It's so cute!" she said, poking the tiny cheeks of the doll. "Who was put in charge of making this?! I should ask them to make a doll of-! Oh, phone…" Livvy reached in her pocket and answered her phone. "Hello? Yeah, she's right here…" Olivia glanced up at Rae questioningly. "Why? You're not going to ask about money again, right? She already paid you back!"

Rae snatched the cellphone. "Stay outta my business and I won't ask who you slept with this time, 'kay? Night, dipwad." She tossed the phone haphazardly on her friend's lap. "Hey, I'm going to go ahead and catch some shut-eye."

"Then I will escort myself out, sunshine," Livvy said.

"See you later, queen," Rae said, rolling her eyes as she got under her covers and waved goodbye to her friend. "Lock the door behind you."

"Don't worry! I will!"

Sunshine filtered through the white curtains over the window and Rae groaned in irritation when the light hit her eyelids. "Just a few more hours…" she grumbled, turning away from the light and pulling her covers over her head to hide from the Sun's evil rays. Suddenly her phone rang and there was definitely no denying it; she had to get up. Except… what she hadn't expected when she pulled the covers off her face and opened her eyes was to see another face.

She nearly screamed but her brain stopped her. Okay, there is a person in her bed… They could possibly be dangerous… But her door was locked! How the hell did they get in here?!

The phone rang again and Rae reached behind her to grab her phone, waiting for it to pause in its ringing before answering.

"Olivia, you need to come over here right now," she whispered harshly, keeping her eyes on her intruder's face to make sure they didn't wake up. "I'm dead serious; I need you here right now." Before Olivia could say even one word, she hung up the phone and very carefully climbed out of bed. Whoever was in her bed had decided the sun was too bright and pulled the blanket over their head before Rae could get completely out of bed. Great, she couldn't even see who her intruder was.

Tiptoeing out of her room, she found her old softball bat from when she was little and a cleaver from her kitchen. As she started heading back towards her room, a slight jiggling of the doorknob and the jingle of keys could be heard faintly from the front hallway of her little apartment. The door opened as Rae peeked around the corner and Olivia gave Rae a questioning look as she noticed the bat and knife.

"What's going on?!" Olivia whispered, "Are you okay?"

Rae quietly shushed her friend and nodded her head towards her bedroom door, which was still ajar, before leading her to the doorway. The two girls peeked their heads in through the doorway and Rae handed Livvy the bat while she kept a tight grip on her cleaver. Sadly, as cautious as they were, Rae had forgotten that today was her water delivery, as she was quite horrified to be reminded of by a deafeningly loud knock on the door in the silence of her house. Livvy nearly tripped over her own feet running to the front door and opening it as Rae watched the figure in her bed stir.

She lifted her knife and her eyes narrowed. If this person intended to hurt her or her friend, they had another thing coming.

Though maybe she hadn't exactly thought that the person in her bed was who she thought it was, but really she couldn't be blamed and it wasn't surprising that her eyes almost separated from her head upon seeing this particular sleepy intruder.

"Oh my…" Rae said, dropping her cleaver and almost cutting off her own toes in the process. "Oh dear lord."

AHHHHHH SO YEAH I DID THAT *coughs loudly* No, honestly I feel like this is really dumb and I dunno if I'm actually going to post this yet. If you actually took the time to read this, I thought I'd mention that I'm working on rewriting the first few chapters of Oceanbound right now! I replanned some stuff and it needed major editing so I'm just doing it! I've had a decent amount of motivation recently and it's slowly building up again so I'm getting excited working on OB :)

One more reminder to PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLLEEEEAASSSEEEE~~~ Leave a vote on my poll if you have the time! And please please review if you enjoyed it or saw any mistakes or have any advice! I'd love to hear from you beautiful readers! :D And one thing is that updates on this will be spread out since THIS STORY IS NOT A PRIORITY, it is merely me trying to get back into writing, so if I take a while to update, please remind me because I'll probably be distracted with school crap and working on my other fics so that I can update them regularly again! :) Thank you all for the support! Ciao! Sayonara! *throws confetti*